Ch 11: The Spearman

"I am Hans Vaskard"

"WHAT?!?!"

"How could that be?! He died years ago!" Said someone among the crowd.

"Exactly! We even saw his funeral! How could he be the one talking at the Announcer?!" Asked someone in the crowd.

The whole city was in shock with the news, people in their houses couldn't believe it, and people outside were visibly shocked.

"Is it even the real Hans talking?" Asked someone in their home.

 "Is what you citizens might be asking, That's right, I am the real Hans. The 1st son of the previous ruler of this City, My Father, Dillos Vaskard." Announced Hans.

The citizens were dumbfounded and talked among each other while Fattah was sweating with anxiety but it faded away as he thought of something, he faced the crowd of people.

"E-Everybody! H-How could we know if that's even the real Hans with just that? Everybody knows that Hans was the 1st son of my father, Dillos! So It's still not a solid enough proof, right?!" Worriedly said Fattah with a smile of anxiety.

"T-That's right! Someone could just be pretending to be him!" Yelled someone in the crowd.

The crowd starts to murmur in agreement.

"It seems that everybody still doesn't believe me, If so then I must!" Said Hans as he ended his sentence firmly.

"A-Ah! Look! On the Balcony of the Mayor's office!" Yelled someone in the crowd.

On the small balcony, there stood Hans with something held in both his hands, it looked like a small mic and some papers on the others. He looks at the crowd of people and places the small mic near his mouth and begins to speak.

"Everybody, see and understand! I am indeed Hans Vaskard! The rightful ruler of Civite!" Announced Hans.

"H-He's right! That's really Hans! He might've grown a beard but he still looks like the Hans from years ago!" Yelled someone in the crowd.

"I-Isn't that the innkeeper from that inn in the northeast region of the city?!" Yelled someone in the crowd.

"Yeah! You're right!" Someone agreed in the crowd.

The crowd begins to discuss with each other.

"That's right, everybody, I am the innkeeper from that inn. After getting almost killed by my brother, I was saved and I have built an inn where I have lived.

The crowd was in a daze upon Hans, the fact of him showing himself being alive was spreading like wildfire through the City, everybody was talking about it."

"Everybody, me being alive is not the most shocking part." Hans raises his hand with the papers in it.

"W-What is that...?" Worriedly asked Fattah.

Hans threw the papers toward the crowd, the papers flew as they slowly descended all throughout the crowd. Before it hit the ground, some people grabbed one before it could fall to the ground.

"What's this? Family #32 Eliminated?" Confusedly asked one of the people who grabbed one.

"Knight Jod in service, Family detained?" Confusedly asked one of the people who grabbed one.

All the paper has landed on the ground. "What is all these?" Asked the crowds, as they started picking up the ones that fell on the ground.

"As you can see, these papers are records." Said Hans.

"Records?"

"They are records of those who are innocent but have been detained and awaiting execution and records of normal citizens getting forced to become knights because they are getting threatened with their families' executions." Said Hans.

"What?! Execution!?"

"That's right, the annual execution of Civite has been executing innocent people." Said Hans.

The whole city was in uproar, citizens spreading the records, others getting angry with the news, and others getting happy that the truth had been revealed, every citizen had a different reaction but they all thought of one thing.

"IT'S ALL THEIR FAULT!" That was what everybody was thinking.

"What the hell is going on!" Asked Lequiss with a confused face.

Eilda and Mihikolo walking towards Lequiss "This must've been what he was trying to do since earlier."

"What?" Asked Lequiss.

"That's right." Eilda picks up one of the records on the ground and inspects it. "We split up earlier and he said he had to do something, so this must be what he was trying to do or rather, get." Explained Eilda.

Jildelmn walks up to Lequiss dodging the unconscious bodies on the ground along with Fylo. "Heh, I guess that innkeeper is quite smart. With this he not only could target Fattah, he could also immediately answer the chaos that ensued when the innocents were released." Remarked Jildelmn.

"A~Ah," The knight that was following Jildelmn dropped down on his knees and was brought back to tears. He opened his arms widely.

"Kiwi and Hiji!" Yelled out the knight in front of him, Jildelmn and Eilda heard him and looked towards him. A mother running along with her daughter towards the knight. The little girl was the same girl that first stood up earlier.

"Papa!" Yelled the little girl as she leaped towards her father's arms, she hugged him tightly, the mother followed after and the knight closed his arms and hugged both of them tightly.

Jildelmn smirks upon seeing this.

"You sure are happy for a loser." Remarked an arrogant voice in the distance.

Jildelmn flinches upon hearing the voice, he suddenly looks angry.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Asked Lequiss.

"I heard him! I definitely heard him!" Anxiously said Jildelmn and he frantically looked around the crowd of many people.

"Huh? What did you hear?" Asked Lequiss.

"Where is he?!" Asked Jildelmn. "Where the hell are you?!?!" Yelled Jildelmn.

"What're you screaming so damn loud for? I'm right here!" Said arrogantly the voice in the distance.

Jildelmn frantically looks around until he spots someone that was just standing there even with all the people running around towards their families, he is dressed like a normal citizen with normal clothes and shorts. He had long bushy black hair and a face that looked no older than Jildelmn with a long spear strapped behind his back.

"I found you!" Jildelmn grins as he saw him.

"Spearman! I challenge you again! Fight me once more!" Yelled Jildelmn to the spearman.

"What...?" The spearman said sounding surprised, his surprised face slowly turned into a big grin "Ehehehe~" The spearman began to chuckle. Jildelmn sees this and looks even more angered.

The spearman looked directly at Jildelmn with an arrogant grin. "You lost and now you want to fight again already? Hehe, I ain't fighting a weak loser like you twice." 

Jildelmn was straight furious at this point which can be seen by the veins on his face. Lequiss, Eilda and the rest didn't do anything as per agreement and just watched.

"I only lost once! And It was against you along with dozens! Yet you say I'm weak?!" Furiously said Jildelmn.

"That's right! Hehe."

On the other side, Fattah was sweating hard, he was scared, anxious, worried, and he was afraid of what would happen from this point on, after getting everything revealed, everyone must blame someone and he already knew that it would be him.

"W-What do I do?! Why the hell is that bastard Hans even alive?! What will they do to me." Fattah anxiously thinks to himself but his mind is suddenly cleared as he sees someone on the distance on the other side.

"Ah! Jorm! You're here to save me aren't you?!" Yelled Fattah, Lequiss, Eilda, Jildelmn, and the rest heard him and turned to him and saw Fattah on the ground on all fours and slowly crawling towards the spearman on the other side. Eilda immediately walked towards Fattah with the intention of blocking him.

"Huh?"

Eilda stopped.

"Why should I help you?" Asked the spearman with one eyebrow raised.

Fattah was frozen on the ground upon hearing him.

"Helping you isn't in our agreement. I only agreed to help your son with 'that', nothing else. So I don't have any reason to help you with your situation or whatever." Said the spearman.

Fattah looked at the spearman with a shocked and anxious face."H-Huh... T-Then what are you doing here...?"

"Ah, I'm only here to see this loser." The spearman looked at Jildelmn "I heard some kid saved him earlier and it seems like..." The spearman glances at Lequiss and the rest beside Jildelmn.

"Hah! That's funny, a kid really did save you." Said The spearman in a mocking tone as he finished seeing everybody and glanced back at Lequiss and the crown glinted at him. The spearman was surprised. "A really interesting kid at that! Ahahahaha! You're quite a lucky one! Even I'm not that lucky! I guess you'll be worthwhile later on." 

The spearman looks at Jildelmn and calls out to him. "Hey!"

Jildelmn still looking furious. "What?!" Asked Jildemn.

"What's your name?" Asked The Spearman.

"My name is Jildelmn Voncratus!" Yelled Jildelmn.

"Alright, Jildelmn huh? Guess I'll remember you." The spearman turns around and faces Jildelmn with his back.

"Jildelmn! Remember this spear you lost to! It'll be waiting for you! Remember the name of the owner of this spear. Jorm Urge! I'll be waiting for you too, Hahahaha!" The spearman starts walking off.

"Wait! Where the hell do you think you're going!?" Yelled Jildelmn as he tried to go after him, dodging running people in the crowd.

"What?" The spearman stops. "Did you think I'd accept your challenge already? You're too damn weak right now to try and challenge me, I was just playing around with you last week, haha! Plus you don't even have your weapon with you right now!" Yelled back the spearman as he began to start walking again.

Jildelmn came upon the realization. "Ah! You're right..."

Jildelmn realizes that he forgot something but he snaps out of the realization and immediately tries to go after the spearman again but it seems he already disappeared from the crowd. Jildelmn stood there dumbfounded as he lost sight of the spearman.

"Dammit!" Jildelmn clenches his fist in anger. "Jorm Urge, huh?!" 

Lequiss, Eilda, and the rest walk up to Jildelmn.

"Does that mean you won?" Asked Lequiss.

"What?" Confusedly asked back Jildelmn.

"He ran away, right? So doesn't that mean you win?" Asked Lequiss.

"No. I haven't beaten him in an actual fight so I won't take that as a win." Said Jildelmn bitterly looking down.

"I thought you said you're confident you can win against him?" Asked Lequiss.

Jildelmn fiercely looked at Eilda, Eilda wasn't fazed and just looked at him normally. 

*Sigh* Jildelmn sighs "I am but he didn't accept my challenge so I can't know for sure, he was confident as well, to the point of arrogance but I can't tell if he's truly stronger than me." Answered Jildelmn.

"Mhm, well it's fine! You're still strong for me and you're still coming with us!" Said Lequiss as he began to chuckle.

"Right..." 

"So what are you guys planning to do now?" Said a voice behind them.

They turn around to see Hans walking up to them while dragging Fattah by his collar and Agaleh following him behind.

"Oh, Mister Hans! Are you done with what you need to do?" Asked Eilda.

"Yes." Hans stops in front of them.

"With everything having been revealed, I think that the only thing left is how to deal with these 2." Said Hans as he threw Fattah right below Lequiss, Fattah landed on his back and opened his eyes to see Lequiss, Jildelmn, and Eilda looking straight at him with a ferocious look.

"U-Um, Uncle." Agaleh calls Hans as he taps his wide shoulder.

"Can you please spare me and father...?" Agaleh asked while nervously shaking.

Hans looked at him with disdain. "No." Agaleh was horrified with his answer, Hans looked back at Lequiss and the rest.

"I think it'll be best if the citizens get to choose how to deal with them but, like I asked earlier, what are you guys going to do now?" Asked Hans.

"I think it'll be best for us to leave now." Said Eilda.

"That's right, we've accomplished what we intended to do so there's nothing else." Agreely said Jildelmn.

Mihikolo and Fylo nod in agreement.

"Seems they all want to leave already." Said Lequiss.

"I see, so you're leaving already, I'm sorry that you can't stay here with all this chaos going on." Disappointedly asked Hans.

"Hahahaha! It's fine! It's not like we were planning on staying here anyway." Laughingly said Lequiss.

"How about you Mister Hans? What're you planning to do?" Asked Eilda.

"I think the best choice would be to take over the position of my brother and take over the city." Answered Hans.

"Mhm, I see..."

"U-Uhm, are you leaving already...?" Asked a voice behind them, they turned around to look who it was and it was the Knight from earlier with his wife and daughter, his daughter hiding behind him.

"Mhm." mumbles Jildelmn as he nods in affirmation.

"I see... That's unfortunate, the heroes who save this city already have to leave. But my daughter here seems to want to give you something." Said the knight. The girl goes up to Jildelmn while hiding something behind her and stops in front of him.

"Mister, you forgot this!" Said the girl as she pulled the thing behind her and held it out for him. It was a large shoulder satchel.

Jildelmn looked surprised. "You're... The kid from the basement..." Said Jildelmn.

"Yes, Mister you told me to hold on to this, saying you'll be back for it." Said the girl.

"Ah, that's right... I told you that..." Jildelmn gratefully takes the pouch from the girl's hands.

"Thank you." Said Jildelmn.

"Hm? Hm?" Lequiss appeared behind Jildelmn, all curious.

"What's that?" Asked Lequiss.

"It's a shoulder satchel, this is where I keep my weapons." Said Jildelmn.

"OoOoO, can I see?!" Curiously asked Lequiss.

"I don't think you'll understand it until I put it in actual use." Said Jildelmn.

"It's fine! I'll definitely understand it!" Confidently said Lequiss.

"But what weapon can you keep in that small bag?" Asked Lequiss.

"Well see for yourself." Said Jildelmn as he opened the satchel, Lequiss looked inside, and inside were multiple sturdy-looking wooden rods with a hollow base and a screw-like end, at the bottom of the satchel, something shined but Lequiss didn't notice it.

Lequiss takes two rods and looks at them. "Huh, what are all these?" Asked Lequiss confused.

"That is just a part of my weapon." Jildelmn grabs both the rods from Lequiss. "Oh!" Lequiss was surprised at his swift grab.

Jildelmn puts away the two rods in the satchel. "You'll understand what it is when you see it." Said Jildelmn.

"Hehe! Alright! Well, It's sad we don't get to stay but everyone is in agreement to leave so let's g-!" Lequiss before even finishing, immediately leaps and leaves everyone behind.

"Hahahaha!" Lequiss looks behind at them, he yells out. "First one to the City gate!" 

Lequiss easily dodges the crowds and continues on hastily running. Everyone was left in a daze.

"Is that really the person we decided to follow?" Asked Jildelmn.

"Well, It's not so bad, honestly, I kind of like it, Haha. It's a nice change of pace." Said Eilda.

Jildelmn stares at her. "I see... Then we better get going, he's kind of fast."

Jildelmn similar to Lequiss, leaps and begins to quickly run after him.

"Um, Fylo, can you keep up with that speed?" Asked Eilda.

"Uh, yeah, I think so?" Answered Fylo.

"Then would you carry Mihikolo or should I?" Asked Eilda.

Mihikolo was surprised. "H-Huh?! Carry me?!" 

"Well yeah, can you keep up with our speed?" Asked Eilda.

"Well- uhh, no..." Answered Mihikolo disappointingly.

"Alright, then Fylo, who should carry him?" Asked Eilda.

"I'll do it! For the Great Mihikolo, I'll do anything!!" Excitedly answered Fylo.

"You go on first, I'll just say goodbye to Mister Hans." Said Eilda.

Suddenly Mihikolo was lifted up in the air and placed on Fylo's shoulder. Fylo didn't do anything and just accepted to be carried by Fylo on his shoulder, Fylo held on Mihikolo tightly.

"Are you ready boss?" Asked Fylo.

"Uhh yeah..." Disappointingly answered Mihikolo.

Fylo begins to run toward the crowd and evades most of them but bumps into some of them because of his large body.

Now Eilda the only one left, turns to Hans. Eilda stares at him and then reaches her hand out for a handshake and Hans takes it and shakes her hand.

"I hope you take good care of this city, Mayor." Said Eilda.

"I will, thank you all for allowing this to happen." Said Hans.

Eilda breaks the handshakes, turns around, and starts walking away.

"Good luck on your journey! I'll be supporting you guys if you're ever in trouble!" Yelled Hans as she started walking away.

Eilda leaped onto the roof of a house, she started running from there on.

After today, news will spread of the incident that happened in the city of Civite and how it was liberated in a single day by a new group of people, a group of people that was banded by just today. This has started the ripple of events that will occur but those are stories for another time, their story has just begun.

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Pronounciation

Jorm Urge - Yorm Urj